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Immagina Milano
No full textI sistemi urbani manifestano oggi una difficoltà di comunicazione tra gli attori coinvolti nei processi di gestione e di costruzione della città in trasformazione. Il design della comunicazione audiovisiva può svolgere un ruolo importante laddove si fa luogo di conoscenza dei territori fisici, umani e sociali accettando la sfida di progettare strumenti dialogici e visivi per facilitare la conversazione tra coloro che sono chiamati al progetto urbano. Il volume affronta la comunicazione della sostenibilità e il dialogo fra gli attori del territorio; sistematizza i primi risultati di un progetto di ricerca già avviato, che sperimenta linguaggi audiovisivi e la produzione di visioni condivise; presenta casi e dispositivi interattivi per nuovi modi di fruizione e per una socialità nello spazio urbano
Co-designing Urban Agriculture with Local Communities
No full textThis chapter illustrates the shared urban agriculture activities conducted between October 2014 and October 2016 in the neighbourhood where the Politecnico di Milano campus is located, in Bovisa, Milan. These activities involved the co-design and co-creation of shared community gardens conducted together with various neighbourhood communities. Specifically, it analyses the various co-design actions carried out with: – the community of residents in the Bovisasca district, the associations 9 × 9 and CeLIM, and the Rodari Middle School for the creation of the neighbourhood garden Orto per Nove; – the community of children and teachers at the Catone Nursery School for the creation of a small vegetable garden in the school grounds; – the community of students and teachers at the Maffucci Middle School for the co-design and creation of a teaching garden in the school grounds. For each of these projects, the paper examines the actors, stakeholders and communities involved as well as the processes of co-design and co-creation with the different groups concerned, highlighting similarities and differences between them
Designing the guidelines for shared urban community gardens
No full textA comparison of the various projects implemented in Milan’s zone, nine district (Orto per Nove, Catone Nursery school, Maffucci middle school) produced a set of guidelines to help local government encourage the dissemination of shared farming practices, guided by an approach based on design thinking in other zones of Milan and outside the city. These guidelines cover three main areas: – Definitions and rules. This part started with the documents and the recommenda- tions of the municipality of Milan. – The design of spaces and therefore the design of the spatial context in which the community garden is to be created, as well as the materials and solutions to be adopted for every kind of physical requirement connected with cultivation. – Workshops, the central themes of which are community building, the rules under- pinning shared activities, activities for co-designing and co-creating the growing spaces themselves and their shared areas, and finally, the acquisition of greater awareness of the process implemented and the goals attained
The Continuous Present of the Contemporary City, Ideas and Practices
No full textThe theory herein proposed that today’s city is nothing but the superimposition of ‘texts’ of varying nature, belonging even to other worlds which, when necessary, take us well beyond the realm of architecture. This is a composite reality where all its pieces are placed on a single plane of perspective that cancel out time and space, like a vast plankton of different styles and shapes, customs, places, environments, enclaves, technologies, services, information, languages, images scenes, spatial control, brands, publicity and economy. Physical space is eroded in favour of new lands to conquer that are heterogeneous, transversal, multidisciplinary, spread-out, introverted and at times immaterial, corresponding to specialised uses, perceptive frameworks, information networks, artificial climates, commercial information, various communication systems, all dimensions contained within architecture, yet hard to describe using formal classical codes of architecture itself. The described examples should be read in this sense, that is, in the sense of good practices that outline partial solutions which can be considered strong fractions often marked by weak connections, but which show exceptional perspicacity.
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L’ipotesi qui formulata è che la città oggi non è altro che la sovrapposizione di “testi” di diversa natura, appartenenti anche ad altri mondi che ci portano, se necessario, anche parecchio fuori dall’architettura. È una realtà composita dove tutti i pezzi sono posti su un unico piano prospettico che annulla il tempo e lo spazio, come un vasto plancton di stili e forme diverse, di usi, di luoghi, di ambienti, di enclave, di tecnologie, di servizi, di informazioni, di linguaggi, di immagini, di scene, di regie spaziali, di marchi, di pubblicità, di economia. Lo spazio fisico si erode a favore di nuovi territori di conquista, eterogenei, trasversali, multidisciplinari, dispersi, introflessi e talvolta immateriali, ai quali corrispondono usi specialistici, impalcature percettive, reti di informazioni, climi artificiali, informazioni commerciali, sistemi comunicativi di varia natura, dimensioni tutte contenute nell’architettura, ma difficilmente descrivibili con i codici formali classici dell’architettura stessa. In questo senso vanno letti gli esempi che seguono, come buone pratiche che tracciano soluzioni parziali considerabili come frazioni forti contrassegnate spesso da connessioni deboli, ma di eccezionale perspicacia
A Designer's Role in Inclusive Design Processes
No full textToday’s world is in the midst of a material and immaterial exchange process, one of discussion and synergic use of abilities. This begs the question of what role design could possibly play in these conditions and what procedures should a designer put in place in order to attempt to give plausible answers to the new relationships that connect people and the space they inhabit. Basically, the quality of a space is no longer entrusted solely to its architectural characteristics, but to the management of a more complex system of relationships, between subjects, objects and actions of varying nature. This design is of an investigative nature, which other than providing solutions also and most importantly becomes a tool for reading and knowing reality. In these conditions, instead of binding ourselves to a system of theoretical assumptions and preconceptions, we should implement a new strategy we could describe as curatorial. It is, therefore, necessary to think of a redistribution of roles that contribute to defining a design and the connections between the various skills. This process is one of disintermediation with regards to the role of the designer, no longer seen as the sole mediator between people’s needs and the shaping of space, but instead as part of a more complex dialogue system
Scattered Subalternities: Transnationalism, Globalization and Power
No full textWho is the Subaltern in the current global frame? Has neoliberalism changed the experience of subalternity? How do subalterns write history and what kind of history is written about subalternity? This special issue addresses these and other questions through various theoretical approaches. The essays argue for the importance of a multidisciplinary perspective and address issues of media representation from a variety of perspectives, such as visual culture, history, philosophy, and postcolonialism. They focus on contemporary subalternity, and especially on the migrant – characterized by diaspora and condemned to invisibility by hegemonic power – and the postcolonial subaltern – who has now the possibility to express her/ himself in unexpected ways, in particular by using new media. The scattering and pervasiveness of media devices and gazes is discussed in depth in these essays, which delve into the dialectic between subaltern cultures and agency embodied in the subjects of representation
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